Victims remembered as cleanup effort continues

Dive teams survey submerged sections of bridge as wreckage is dismantled

- MIKE PESOLI AND JEFFREY COLLINS

Of the eight migrant workers who were working on the Francis Scott Key Bridge before it was hit by a cargo ship, two survived and two bodies were found in a submerged pickup. The other four are presumed dead.

As divers assisted crews with the complicated and meticulous operation of removing the steel and concrete from the fallen Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, some near the site took time on Easter Sunday to reflect on the six workers presumed to have plunged to their deaths.

As cranes periodically swung into place and workers measured and cut the steel to prepare to lift sections of twisted steel, Rev. Ako Walker held a Mass in Spanish at Sacred Heart of Jesus, about eight kilometres up the Patapsco River from the collapse.

“Yes we can rebuild a bridge, but we have to look at the way in which migrant workers are treated and how best we can improve their situation as they come to the United States of America,” Walker said of the men who were from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador and were patching potholes.